Quotes About Stage

I don't write anything. It's all done onstage, which is why I always tell younger comics that they just have to go do it. You have to get up, talk, and take a thought or a word and just expound, and you find it in there. I don't sit down and write.

A lot of comedians are really funny onstage, but they can't do a podcast.

I wore Chuck Taylors for a couple shows, and the second show I wore the Chuck Taylors, that was the one and only time I fell onstage. I haven't really bit it onstage in high heels yet. It will happen. It's not about if, it's about when.

I'm someone who is quite shy, and onstage I'm quite... extrovert.

I just like to play and I'm always ready to be back onstage.

I'm pretty comfortable in a car to know what I'm doing, and I'm exactly the opposite onstage.

I just do my thing onstage - it's just what happens. No one, even if they're into the band, can know it's as natural and real as anything can be. I don't think about it.

I always just felt more comfortable just kind of hiding behind a character than being myself onstage.

Entertaining and being onstage is such a rush; it's amazing... and I just hope that it can last, and last for a long time.

I'm generally a fairly shy, withheld person. But when I get onstage, I get a bit mad.

When you go onstage, the process of getting you from the dressing room to the stage is all about ego.

What people don't normally know about us is the hustle is very real, and it's sorely driven a lot by how we consider ourselves. We don't pay a whole lot of attention to any type of judgment that we might get from outside people. I think that comes from growing up onstage.

This accident, or incident, happened in the most secure place I could have felt I was in: Walking onstage with my guitar, you know?

I've really improved, I think, as far as just being able to get up onstage with my guitar and sing.

When I'm onstage the joy is to try to be the best I can be, I'm there because I want it to be perfect.

I might come across like kind of a show-off onstage and stuff, but I like collaborating with people.

So did my time on Broadway after the Xscape tour doing 'Chicago'. Performing eight times a week put in the mindset of being onstage again.

There are a bunch of talented bands out there... So yeah, I often think, 'Why aren't these people onstage and why do I have a microphone?'

We wanted to be successful, we wanted to shoot a video. We just wrote a song and we were like, 'OK, let's go onstage! Let's shoot a video for it!' That was always our dream... We just wanted to have fans and a crowd who would listen.

Joe Rogan has this podcast where he's talking astrophysics and lean BMI indexes and weird philosophy most of the time and yet, when you see him onstage, you're like, 'Oh, this guy is just a killer comedian.'

I took a break from theater after 'The Cripple of Inishmaan' to make some money, to be honest, and also to feel more confident in front of a camera, and before long it was two years since I'd been acting onstage and I found that I really missed it.

Musicians want to be heard. So I'm not hiding. But I do like to leave it there onstage and be myself, in that sense. Because some people carry it with them.

I saw a concert with Nena singing '99 Red Balloons' on TV and I said, 'I will also go onstage and sing.'

I will say that, I, being a Jew, experience unease before I go onstage; and after I go onstage, and in general. But luckily the forty-five minutes to an hour that I'm onstage I usually forget everything else and I just press play.